Maja Svensdotter combines her background in furniture design and cabinet making with her education in spatial design to create sculptural pieces of upholstered furniture. She experiments with patterned fabrics, mainly ticking, cutting through the stripes and patching them back together, letting them meet in other ways than they met in the loom. In this way she composes her own patterns, at times psychedelic, at times subtle offsets. Form and surface are intimately intertwined. For her exhibition at Fiberspace, Maja is producing entirely new work inspired by totem poles and mummified Egyptian cats.
OCCUPATION?
Artist and designer
WHAT DOES FIBER MEAN TO YOU?
It’s meaning is infinitely wide, but I look at it as a material that I know and master, yet one that still holds it’s surprises.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE FIBER OR TEXTILE TECHNIQUE?
I get excited by napped fabrics and surfaces. But is also interested in colors, patterns and fabric’s decorative function and the values ​​it creates
WHAT IS YOUR MOST VIVID TEXTILE MEMORY?
A souvenir shop in Mexico full of hundreds of hanging hand-embroidered fabrics made by the Otomi people. Fantastically expressive and beautiful!
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http://cargocollective.com/majasvensdotter